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The boundaries of monotheism interdisciplinary explorations into the foundations of western monotheism /

Table of Contents: “…: exploring the boundaries of monotheism : introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- The boundaries of Israelite monotheism / Bob Becking -- The Divine Messiah : early Jewish monotheism and the New Testament / Patrick Chatelion Counet -- Monotheistic to a certain extent : the "good neighbours" of God in Ireland / Jacqueline Borsje -- The return of the gods : the clash between monotheism and polytheism in German romanticism / Bert Blans & Marcel Poorthuis -- The unity of God / René Munnik -- The whole of life : beyond the boundaries of monotheism? …”
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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Lewis and Russell Hoban -- The ultimate union: person, community, and the divine in Doris Lessing's apocalyptic fiction -- The ultimate cosmos: a new heaven and a new earth in three science fiction writers: Arthur C. …”
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Miracle discourse in the New Testament

Table of Contents: “…Watson -- Toward a socio-rhetorical taxonomy of divine intervention: miracle discourse in the Revelation to John / David A. …”
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Nemrud Da�gi : recent archaeological research and conservation activities in the tomb sanctuary on Mount Nemrud / by Brijder, H. A. G.

Table of Contents: “…A survey of the topography and history of the Kingdom of Commagene, and King Antiochus I's religious & cultural programme and divine-ruler cult -- Part II. A survey of previous explorations and archaeological activities on Nemrud Dagi and in other Commagenian sanctuaries and sites : the sites revisited and reviewed -- Part III. …”
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / by Reed Doob, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…Virgil's Aenid -- Boethius's Consolation of philosophy -- Dante's Divine comedy -- Chaucer's House of fame -- Appendix: Labyrinths in manuscripts -- Index.…”
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Acting for singers creating believable singing characters / by Ostwald, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Believability : the territory and the tools. The divine marriage : combining believable acting with expressive singing -- To become or not to become : using yourself to create a believable character -- Playing in the moment : using improvisation to be believable -- Judgements and trust : improving your concentration -- Creating your character. …”
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Politics of touch sense, movement, sovereignty / by Manning, Erin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.…”
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Loneliness & lament a journey to receptivity / by Huntington, Patricia J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Soft words for mother -- For what divine operation are we set up? -- Journey to the land where heart grows -- Pain and intimacy : the pause in bearing -- One step-- along the way -- A resonant chorus.…”
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Nemrud Da�gi : recent archaeological research and conservation activities in the tomb sanctuary on Mount Nemrud / by Brijder, H. A. G.

Table of Contents: “…A survey of the topography and history of the Kingdom of Commagene, and King Antiochus I's religious & cultural programme and divine-ruler cult -- Part II. A survey of previous explorations and archaeological activities on Nemrud Dagi and in other Commagenian sanctuaries and sites : the sites revisited and reviewed -- Part III. …”
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / by Reed Doob, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…Virgil's Aenid -- Boethius's Consolation of philosophy -- Dante's Divine comedy -- Chaucer's House of fame -- Appendix: Labyrinths in manuscripts -- Index.…”
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The anticipatory corpse medicine, power, and the care of the dying / by Bishop, Jeffrey Paul

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The anticipatory corpse medicine, power, and the care of the dying / by Bishop, Jeffrey Paul

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Absorbing perfections Kabbalah and interpretation / by Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. …”
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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism

Table of Contents: “…Kook / Carl Feit -- The order of creation and the emerging God : evolution and divine action in the natural world / Lawrence Troster.…”
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Crazy wisdom saves the world again! handbook for a spiritual revolution : featuring "The evolution sutra" and "Be here wow!" / by Nisker, Wes

Table of Contents: “…-- The fact of the matter -- DNA by the numbers -- Sub-subatomic physics -- A fool's paradise -- Busy dying -- "Poem": why I meditate -- The evolution sutra -- Hello earthling -- The divine DNA -- Survive or die -- Your mama is a germ -- Past and future lives -- New animal on the block -- The kisser -- Humans double-wise, double wise -- Be here wow! …”
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New perspectives on old texts proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 200...

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- The wood-offering: the convoluted evolution of a halakhah in Qumran and rabbinic law / Cana Werman -- Further reflections on a divine and angelic humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Crispin H.T. …”
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Christology and scripture interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…" christological readings of the Old Testament in the patristic era / Morwenna Ludlow -- Christology in the early Arian controversy : the exegetical war / Sara Parvis -- Resurrection and scripture / John Webster -- Christology, scripture, divine action and hermeneutics / Stephen R. Holmes -- Exegesis, ontology and ethics : Karl Barth on the Sermon on the mount / Paul T. …”
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Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides by Israelowich, Ido, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales -- Introduction -- The composition of the sacred tales -- Date of composition -- Method of composition -- Motives for composition -- The sacred tales as an autobiography -- The ancient readers of the sacred tales -- A narrative of redemption -- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides -- Introduction -- The Graeco-Roman health-care system -- Towards a definition of a medical discourse -- Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world -- Roman medicine and its Greek influences -- Dreams -- The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the sacred tales -- The place of the sick in society -- Medical discourse in the sacred tales -- The physicians in the sacred tales -- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides -- Falling ill -- Aristides and Asclepius -- Wider contexts -- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides -- Introduction -- Theology -- The myth of Asclepius -- Divination, oracles and dreams -- Dreams -- Oracles -- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation -- Cult, festivals and games -- The power of images.…”
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Crazy wisdom saves the world again! handbook for a spiritual revolution : featuring "The evolution sutra" and "Be here wow!" / by Nisker, Wes

Table of Contents: “…-- The fact of the matter -- DNA by the numbers -- Sub-subatomic physics -- A fool's paradise -- Busy dying -- "Poem": why I meditate -- The evolution sutra -- Hello earthling -- The divine DNA -- Survive or die -- Your mama is a germ -- Past and future lives -- New animal on the block -- The kisser -- Humans double-wise, double wise -- Be here wow! …”
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